Name: Colleen Shuler
Date: June 20, 2008
Grade Level: Second grade
Subject: Language Arts & Science
GLES:
Reading 1G: Generate questions to clarify main ideas and supporting details.
3C: Use details from text to ask questions to clarify understanding
Science 1A: Pose questions about objects, materials, organisms and events in the environment.
Introduction:
Today we are going to write questions about worms to help each other review what we have learned.
Resources:
Books about worms: Wiggling Worms & Diary of a Worm
Science notebooks
Link on Worm World for information
Blog: WORMS
Lesson:
1. Have the students get with a partner.
2. Working together, review the books and information gathered from website and from our observations of worms, look for interesting facts.
3. Choose a fact and write a question about it to be answered by your classmates.
4. Type the question into the Blog link for others to think about.
5. Record your question and the answer to it in your science notebook. Be sure to be able to tell the source for your answer.
6. After everyone has had an opportunity to enter their questions into the Worm Blog we will look at each question together.
7. We will take turns answering and verifying our answers to the questions.
Extensions:
1. Create a class book of Worm Facts.
2. Write original fiction books, individually or in small groups, inserting worm facts.
3. Create a collage about worms.
4. Design an informational poster about worms.
Name: Colleen Shuler
Date: June 20, 2008
Grade Level: Second grade
Subject: Language Arts & Science
GLES:
Reading 1G: Generate questions to clarify main ideas and supporting details.
3C: Use details from text to ask questions to clarify understanding
Science 1A: Pose questions about objects, materials, organisms and events in the environment.
Introduction:
Today we are going to write questions about worms to help each other review what we have learned.
Resources:
Books about worms: Wiggling Worms & Diary of a Worm
Science notebooks
Link on Worm World for information
Blog: WORMS
Lesson:
1. Have the students get with a partner.
2. Working together, review the books and information gathered from website and from our observations of worms, look for interesting facts.
3. Choose a fact and write a question about it to be answered by your classmates.
4. Type the question into the Blog link for others to think about.
5. Record your question and the answer to it in your science notebook. Be sure to be able to tell the source for your answer.
6. After everyone has had an opportunity to enter their questions into the Worm Blog we will look at each question together.
7. We will take turns answering and verifying our answers to the questions.
Extensions:
1. Create a class book of Worm Facts.
2. Write original fiction books, individually or in small groups, inserting worm facts.
3. Create a collage about worms.
4. Design an informational poster about worms.